false 347658 <![CDATA[Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967m/347658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967s/347658.jpg Born in Vienna, Kluger somehow survived a girlhood spent in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Gross-Rosen. Some of the lessons she imparts are surprising, as when she argues, against other historians, that the female camp guards were far more humane than their male counterparts, and when she admits that she has difficulty today queuing in line, a constant of camp life, "out of revulsion for the bovine activity of simply standing." Her memories of her youth are punctuated by sharp reflections on the meaning of the Shoah and how it should best be memorialized in a time when ever fewer survivors are left to act as witnesses. Those reflections are often angry--"Absolutely nothing good came out of the concentration camps," she writes, recalling an argument with a naive German graduate student, "and he expects catharsis, purgation, the sort of thing you go to the theatre for?"

But they are constantly provocative, too. Though readers will doubtless take issue with some of her conclusions, Kluger's insistent memoir merits a wide audience. --Gregory McNamee

]]> 347658 10 337948 1992 Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series) total:97|5:31|4:38|3:21|2:4|1:3| 97 381 158 15 184417 3.84 32 2 41333106 1839360 347658 1558614362 9781558614369 13 <![CDATA[Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967m/347658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967s/347658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/347658.Still_Alive_A_Holocaust_Girlhood_Remembered 3.85 74 Born in Vienna, Kluger somehow survived a girlhood spent in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Gross-Rosen. Some of the lessons she imparts are surprising, as when she argues, against other historians, that the female camp guards were far more humane than their male counterparts, and when she admits that she has difficulty today queuing in line, a constant of camp life, "out of revulsion for the bovine activity of simply standing." Her memories of her youth are punctuated by sharp reflections on the meaning of the Shoah and how it should best be memorialized in a time when ever fewer survivors are left to act as witnesses. Those reflections are often angry--"Absolutely nothing good came out of the concentration camps," she writes, recalling an argument with a naive German graduate student, "and he expects catharsis, purgation, the sort of thing you go to the theatre for?"

But they are constantly provocative, too. Though readers will doubtless take issue with some of her conclusions, Kluger's insistent memoir merits a wide audience. --Gregory McNamee

]]> 1992 4 0 false Tue Dec 30 15:41:57 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 15:42:30 -0800 2008 "Instead of God I believe in ghosts"

This was a very different memoir than the others I've read. I think because the author is a writer and her story doesn't have the direct simplicity of someone just telling their story of survival. She is more abstract and more analytical. He...more...]]> 15587538 875812 347658 1558614362 9781558614369 13 <![CDATA[Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967m/347658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967s/347658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/347658.Still_Alive_A_Holocaust_Girlhood_Remembered 3.93 97 Born in Vienna, Kluger somehow survived a girlhood spent in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Gross-Rosen. Some of the lessons she imparts are surprising, as when she argues, against other historians, that the female camp guards were far more humane than their male counterparts, and when she admits that she has difficulty today queuing in line, a constant of camp life, "out of revulsion for the bovine activity of simply standing." Her memories of her youth are punctuated by sharp reflections on the meaning of the Shoah and how it should best be memorialized in a time when ever fewer survivors are left to act as witnesses. Those reflections are often angry--"Absolutely nothing good came out of the concentration camps," she writes, recalling an argument with a naive German graduate student, "and he expects catharsis, purgation, the sort of thing you go to the theatre for?"

But they are constantly provocative, too. Though readers will doubtless take issue with some of her conclusions, Kluger's insistent memoir merits a wide audience. --Gregory McNamee

]]> 1992 5 0 false Fri Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 16 15:37:44 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 16 19:39:54 -0800 2008 more...]]> 59781798 205134 347658 1558614362 9781558614369 13 <![CDATA[Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967m/347658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967s/347658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/347658.Still_Alive_A_Holocaust_Girlhood_Remembered 3.93 97 Born in Vienna, Kluger somehow survived a girlhood spent in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Gross-Rosen. Some of the lessons she imparts are surprising, as when she argues, against other historians, that the female camp guards were far more humane than their male counterparts, and when she admits that she has difficulty today queuing in line, a constant of camp life, "out of revulsion for the bovine activity of simply standing." Her memories of her youth are punctuated by sharp reflections on the meaning of the Shoah and how it should best be memorialized in a time when ever fewer survivors are left to act as witnesses. Those reflections are often angry--"Absolutely nothing good came out of the concentration camps," she writes, recalling an argument with a naive German graduate student, "and he expects catharsis, purgation, the sort of thing you go to the theatre for?"

But they are constantly provocative, too. Though readers will doubtless take issue with some of her conclusions, Kluger's insistent memoir merits a wide audience. --Gregory McNamee

]]> 1992 5 0 false Mon Jun 15 14:21:44 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 14:33:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3239309 202900 347658 1558614362 9781558614369 13 <![CDATA[Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967m/347658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967s/347658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/347658.Still_Alive_A_Holocaust_Girlhood_Remembered 3.93 97 Born in Vienna, Kluger somehow survived a girlhood spent in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Gross-Rosen. Some of the lessons she imparts are surprising, as when she argues, against other historians, that the female camp guards were far more humane than their male counterparts, and when she admits that she has difficulty today queuing in line, a constant of camp life, "out of revulsion for the bovine activity of simply standing." Her memories of her youth are punctuated by sharp reflections on the meaning of the Shoah and how it should best be memorialized in a time when ever fewer survivors are left to act as witnesses. Those reflections are often angry--"Absolutely nothing good came out of the concentration camps," she writes, recalling an argument with a naive German graduate student, "and he expects catharsis, purgation, the sort of thing you go to the theatre for?"

But they are constantly provocative, too. Though readers will doubtless take issue with some of her conclusions, Kluger's insistent memoir merits a wide audience. --Gregory McNamee

]]> 1992 5 0 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 18 15:45:26 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 01:06:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 62995126 575792 347658 1558614362 9781558614369 13 <![CDATA[Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967m/347658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967s/347658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/347658.Still_Alive_A_Holocaust_Girlhood_Remembered 3.93 97 Born in Vienna, Kluger somehow survived a girlhood spent in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Gross-Rosen. Some of the lessons she imparts are surprising, as when she argues, against other historians, that the female camp guards were far more humane than their male counterparts, and when she admits that she has difficulty today queuing in line, a constant of camp life, "out of revulsion for the bovine activity of simply standing." Her memories of her youth are punctuated by sharp reflections on the meaning of the Shoah and how it should best be memorialized in a time when ever fewer survivors are left to act as witnesses. Those reflections are often angry--"Absolutely nothing good came out of the concentration camps," she writes, recalling an argument with a naive German graduate student, "and he expects catharsis, purgation, the sort of thing you go to the theatre for?"

But they are constantly provocative, too. Though readers will doubtless take issue with some of her conclusions, Kluger's insistent memoir merits a wide audience. --Gregory McNamee

]]> 1992 5 0 false Sat Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 21:16:24 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 21:20:01 -0700 2009 27653824 1331119 347658 1558614362 9781558614369 13 <![CDATA[Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967m/347658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967s/347658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/347658.Still_Alive_A_Holocaust_Girlhood_Remembered 3.93 97 Born in Vienna, Kluger somehow survived a girlhood spent in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Gross-Rosen. Some of the lessons she imparts are surprising, as when she argues, against other historians, that the female camp guards were far more humane than their male counterparts, and when she admits that she has difficulty today queuing in line, a constant of camp life, "out of revulsion for the bovine activity of simply standing." Her memories of her youth are punctuated by sharp reflections on the meaning of the Shoah and how it should best be memorialized in a time when ever fewer survivors are left to act as witnesses. Those reflections are often angry--"Absolutely nothing good came out of the concentration camps," she writes, recalling an argument with a naive German graduate student, "and he expects catharsis, purgation, the sort of thing you go to the theatre for?"

But they are constantly provocative, too. Though readers will doubtless take issue with some of her conclusions, Kluger's insistent memoir merits a wide audience. --Gregory McNamee

]]> 1992 3 0 false Sat Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 18 14:38:32 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 08:50:16 -0700 2008 more...]]> 26584992 1157502 347658 1558614362 9781558614369 13 <![CDATA[Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967m/347658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967s/347658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/347658.Still_Alive_A_Holocaust_Girlhood_Remembered 3.93 97 Born in Vienna, Kluger somehow survived a girlhood spent in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Gross-Rosen. Some of the lessons she imparts are surprising, as when she argues, against other historians, that the female camp guards were far more humane than their male counterparts, and when she admits that she has difficulty today queuing in line, a constant of camp life, "out of revulsion for the bovine activity of simply standing." Her memories of her youth are punctuated by sharp reflections on the meaning of the Shoah and how it should best be memorialized in a time when ever fewer survivors are left to act as witnesses. Those reflections are often angry--"Absolutely nothing good came out of the concentration camps," she writes, recalling an argument with a naive German graduate student, "and he expects catharsis, purgation, the sort of thing you go to the theatre for?"

But they are constantly provocative, too. Though readers will doubtless take issue with some of her conclusions, Kluger's insistent memoir merits a wide audience. --Gregory McNamee

]]> 1992 1 0 false Wed Dec 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jul 07 17:42:59 -0700 2008 Thu Dec 03 10:27:17 -0800 2009 more...]]> 67141495 2621358 1591266 3423119500 9783423119504 1 <![CDATA[Weiter leben. Eine Jugend.]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185572338m/1591266.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185572338s/1591266.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1591266.Weiter_leben_Eine_Jugend_ 4.12 17 Born in Vienna, Kluger somehow survived a girlhood spent in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Gross-Rosen. Some of the lessons she imparts are surprising, as when she argues, against other historians, that the female camp guards were far more humane than their male counterparts, and when she admits that she has difficulty today queuing in line, a constant of camp life, "out of revulsion for the bovine activity of simply standing." Her memories of her youth are punctuated by sharp reflections on the meaning of the Shoah and how it should best be memorialized in a time when ever fewer survivors are left to act as witnesses. Those reflections are often angry--"Absolutely nothing good came out of the concentration camps," she writes, recalling an argument with a naive German graduate student, "and he expects catharsis, purgation, the sort of thing you go to the theatre for?"

But they are constantly provocative, too. Though readers will doubtless take issue with some of her conclusions, Kluger's insistent memoir merits a wide audience. --Gregory McNamee

]]> 1992 0 0 false Wed Aug 12 15:59:32 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 15:59:35 -0700 2009 http://sensemania.blogspot.com/2008/10/w...]]> 4320700 266814 347658 1558614362 9781558614369 13 <![CDATA[Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967m/347658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967s/347658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/347658.Still_Alive_A_Holocaust_Girlhood_Remembered 3.93 97 Born in Vienna, Kluger somehow survived a girlhood spent in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Gross-Rosen. Some of the lessons she imparts are surprising, as when she argues, against other historians, that the female camp guards were far more humane than their male counterparts, and when she admits that she has difficulty today queuing in line, a constant of camp life, "out of revulsion for the bovine activity of simply standing." Her memories of her youth are punctuated by sharp reflections on the meaning of the Shoah and how it should best be memorialized in a time when ever fewer survivors are left to act as witnesses. Those reflections are often angry--"Absolutely nothing good came out of the concentration camps," she writes, recalling an argument with a naive German graduate student, "and he expects catharsis, purgation, the sort of thing you go to the theatre for?"

But they are constantly provocative, too. Though readers will doubtless take issue with some of her conclusions, Kluger's insistent memoir merits a wide audience. --Gregory McNamee

]]> 1992 4 0 false Thu Aug 09 11:21:18 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 12 15:23:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4064016 152174 347658 1558614362 9781558614369 13 <![CDATA[Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967m/347658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967s/347658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/347658.Still_Alive_A_Holocaust_Girlhood_Remembered 3.93 97 Born in Vienna, Kluger somehow survived a girlhood spent in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Gross-Rosen. Some of the lessons she imparts are surprising, as when she argues, against other historians, that the female camp guards were far more humane than their male counterparts, and when she admits that she has difficulty today queuing in line, a constant of camp life, "out of revulsion for the bovine activity of simply standing." Her memories of her youth are punctuated by sharp reflections on the meaning of the Shoah and how it should best be memorialized in a time when ever fewer survivors are left to act as witnesses. Those reflections are often angry--"Absolutely nothing good came out of the concentration camps," she writes, recalling an argument with a naive German graduate student, "and he expects catharsis, purgation, the sort of thing you go to the theatre for?"

But they are constantly provocative, too. Though readers will doubtless take issue with some of her conclusions, Kluger's insistent memoir merits a wide audience. --Gregory McNamee

]]> 1992 5 0 false Sat Aug 04 04:33:49 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 04 04:33:49 -0700 2007 more...]]> 9603680 138799 347658 1558614362 9781558614369 13 <![CDATA[Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967m/347658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967s/347658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/347658.Still_Alive_A_Holocaust_Girlhood_Remembered 3.93 97 Born in Vienna, Kluger somehow survived a girlhood spent in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Gross-Rosen. Some of the lessons she imparts are surprising, as when she argues, against other historians, that the female camp guards were far more humane than their male counterparts, and when she admits that she has difficulty today queuing in line, a constant of camp life, "out of revulsion for the bovine activity of simply standing." Her memories of her youth are punctuated by sharp reflections on the meaning of the Shoah and how it should best be memorialized in a time when ever fewer survivors are left to act as witnesses. Those reflections are often angry--"Absolutely nothing good came out of the concentration camps," she writes, recalling an argument with a naive German graduate student, "and he expects catharsis, purgation, the sort of thing you go to the theatre for?"

But they are constantly provocative, too. Though readers will doubtless take issue with some of her conclusions, Kluger's insistent memoir merits a wide audience. --Gregory McNamee

]]> 1992 4 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 27 10:01:53 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 27 10:04:32 -0800 2007 1962772 95228 347658 1558614362 9781558614369 13 <![CDATA[Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967m/347658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967s/347658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/347658.Still_Alive_A_Holocaust_Girlhood_Remembered 3.93 97 Born in Vienna, Kluger somehow survived a girlhood spent in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Gross-Rosen. Some of the lessons she imparts are surprising, as when she argues, against other historians, that the female camp guards were far more humane than their male counterparts, and when she admits that she has difficulty today queuing in line, a constant of camp life, "out of revulsion for the bovine activity of simply standing." Her memories of her youth are punctuated by sharp reflections on the meaning of the Shoah and how it should best be memorialized in a time when ever fewer survivors are left to act as witnesses. Those reflections are often angry--"Absolutely nothing good came out of the concentration camps," she writes, recalling an argument with a naive German graduate student, "and he expects catharsis, purgation, the sort of thing you go to the theatre for?"

But they are constantly provocative, too. Though readers will doubtless take issue with some of her conclusions, Kluger's insistent memoir merits a wide audience. --Gregory McNamee

]]> 1992 4 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Jun 14 09:23:02 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 21:32:52 -0800 2009 276129 16951 347658 1558614362 9781558614369 13 <![CDATA[Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967m/347658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967s/347658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/347658.Still_Alive_A_Holocaust_Girlhood_Remembered 3.93 97 Born in Vienna, Kluger somehow survived a girlhood spent in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Gross-Rosen. Some of the lessons she imparts are surprising, as when she argues, against other historians, that the female camp guards were far more humane than their male counterparts, and when she admits that she has difficulty today queuing in line, a constant of camp life, "out of revulsion for the bovine activity of simply standing." Her memories of her youth are punctuated by sharp reflections on the meaning of the Shoah and how it should best be memorialized in a time when ever fewer survivors are left to act as witnesses. Those reflections are often angry--"Absolutely nothing good came out of the concentration camps," she writes, recalling an argument with a naive German graduate student, "and he expects catharsis, purgation, the sort of thing you go to the theatre for?"

But they are constantly provocative, too. Though readers will doubtless take issue with some of her conclusions, Kluger's insistent memoir merits a wide audience. --Gregory McNamee

]]> 1992 2 0 false Wed Mar 14 22:52:56 -0700 2007 Wed Mar 28 09:50:11 -0700 2007 18779516 1027772 347658 1558614362 9781558614369 13 <![CDATA[Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967m/347658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967s/347658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/347658.Still_Alive_A_Holocaust_Girlhood_Remembered 3.93 97 Born in Vienna, Kluger somehow survived a girlhood spent in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Gross-Rosen. Some of the lessons she imparts are surprising, as when she argues, against other historians, that the female camp guards were far more humane than their male counterparts, and when she admits that she has difficulty today queuing in line, a constant of camp life, "out of revulsion for the bovine activity of simply standing." Her memories of her youth are punctuated by sharp reflections on the meaning of the Shoah and how it should best be memorialized in a time when ever fewer survivors are left to act as witnesses. Those reflections are often angry--"Absolutely nothing good came out of the concentration camps," she writes, recalling an argument with a naive German graduate student, "and he expects catharsis, purgation, the sort of thing you go to the theatre for?"

But they are constantly provocative, too. Though readers will doubtless take issue with some of her conclusions, Kluger's insistent memoir merits a wide audience. --Gregory McNamee

]]> 1992 2 0 false Thu Mar 27 12:55:48 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 27 12:56:07 -0700 2008 8319572 440806 347658 1558614362 9781558614369 13 <![CDATA[Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967m/347658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967s/347658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/347658.Still_Alive_A_Holocaust_Girlhood_Remembered 3.93 97 Born in Vienna, Kluger somehow survived a girlhood spent in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Gross-Rosen. Some of the lessons she imparts are surprising, as when she argues, against other historians, that the female camp guards were far more humane than their male counterparts, and when she admits that she has difficulty today queuing in line, a constant of camp life, "out of revulsion for the bovine activity of simply standing." Her memories of her youth are punctuated by sharp reflections on the meaning of the Shoah and how it should best be memorialized in a time when ever fewer survivors are left to act as witnesses. Those reflections are often angry--"Absolutely nothing good came out of the concentration camps," she writes, recalling an argument with a naive German graduate student, "and he expects catharsis, purgation, the sort of thing you go to the theatre for?"

But they are constantly provocative, too. Though readers will doubtless take issue with some of her conclusions, Kluger's insistent memoir merits a wide audience. --Gregory McNamee

]]> 1992 4 0 false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Sat Oct 27 12:55:05 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 28 17:06:46 -0700 2007 80211388 1176673 347658 1558614362 9781558614369 13 <![CDATA[Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967m/347658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967s/347658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/347658.Still_Alive_A_Holocaust_Girlhood_Remembered 3.93 97 Born in Vienna, Kluger somehow survived a girlhood spent in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Gross-Rosen. Some of the lessons she imparts are surprising, as when she argues, against other historians, that the female camp guards were far more humane than their male counterparts, and when she admits that she has difficulty today queuing in line, a constant of camp life, "out of revulsion for the bovine activity of simply standing." Her memories of her youth are punctuated by sharp reflections on the meaning of the Shoah and how it should best be memorialized in a time when ever fewer survivors are left to act as witnesses. Those reflections are often angry--"Absolutely nothing good came out of the concentration camps," she writes, recalling an argument with a naive German graduate student, "and he expects catharsis, purgation, the sort of thing you go to the theatre for?"

But they are constantly provocative, too. Though readers will doubtless take issue with some of her conclusions, Kluger's insistent memoir merits a wide audience. --Gregory McNamee

]]> 1992 0 0 false Mon Dec 07 14:58:20 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 07 14:58:20 -0800 2009 79846184 2183127 347658 1558614362 9781558614369 13 <![CDATA[Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967m/347658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967s/347658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/347658.Still_Alive_A_Holocaust_Girlhood_Remembered 3.93 97 Born in Vienna, Kluger somehow survived a girlhood spent in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Gross-Rosen. Some of the lessons she imparts are surprising, as when she argues, against other historians, that the female camp guards were far more humane than their male counterparts, and when she admits that she has difficulty today queuing in line, a constant of camp life, "out of revulsion for the bovine activity of simply standing." Her memories of her youth are punctuated by sharp reflections on the meaning of the Shoah and how it should best be memorialized in a time when ever fewer survivors are left to act as witnesses. Those reflections are often angry--"Absolutely nothing good came out of the concentration camps," she writes, recalling an argument with a naive German graduate student, "and he expects catharsis, purgation, the sort of thing you go to the theatre for?"

But they are constantly provocative, too. Though readers will doubtless take issue with some of her conclusions, Kluger's insistent memoir merits a wide audience. --Gregory McNamee

]]> 1992 3 0 false Fri Dec 04 01:35:07 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 04 19:04:20 -0800 2009 78321725 662286 347658 1558614362 9781558614369 13 <![CDATA[Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967m/347658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967s/347658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/347658.Still_Alive_A_Holocaust_Girlhood_Remembered 3.93 97 Born in Vienna, Kluger somehow survived a girlhood spent in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Gross-Rosen. Some of the lessons she imparts are surprising, as when she argues, against other historians, that the female camp guards were far more humane than their male counterparts, and when she admits that she has difficulty today queuing in line, a constant of camp life, "out of revulsion for the bovine activity of simply standing." Her memories of her youth are punctuated by sharp reflections on the meaning of the Shoah and how it should best be memorialized in a time when ever fewer survivors are left to act as witnesses. Those reflections are often angry--"Absolutely nothing good came out of the concentration camps," she writes, recalling an argument with a naive German graduate student, "and he expects catharsis, purgation, the sort of thing you go to the theatre for?"

But they are constantly provocative, too. Though readers will doubtless take issue with some of her conclusions, Kluger's insistent memoir merits a wide audience. --Gregory McNamee

]]> 1992 0 0 false Thu Nov 19 09:37:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 09:37:02 -0800 2009 78094557 2953749 347658 1558614362 9781558614369 13 <![CDATA[Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967m/347658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967s/347658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/347658.Still_Alive_A_Holocaust_Girlhood_Remembered 3.93 97 Born in Vienna, Kluger somehow survived a girlhood spent in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Gross-Rosen. Some of the lessons she imparts are surprising, as when she argues, against other historians, that the female camp guards were far more humane than their male counterparts, and when she admits that she has difficulty today queuing in line, a constant of camp life, "out of revulsion for the bovine activity of simply standing." Her memories of her youth are punctuated by sharp reflections on the meaning of the Shoah and how it should best be memorialized in a time when ever fewer survivors are left to act as witnesses. Those reflections are often angry--"Absolutely nothing good came out of the concentration camps," she writes, recalling an argument with a naive German graduate student, "and he expects catharsis, purgation, the sort of thing you go to the theatre for?"

But they are constantly provocative, too. Though readers will doubtless take issue with some of her conclusions, Kluger's insistent memoir merits a wide audience. --Gregory McNamee

]]> 1992 3 0 false Tue Nov 17 10:59:19 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 10:59:19 -0800 2009 78018248 2385123 347658 1558614362 9781558614369 13 <![CDATA[Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967m/347658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173937967s/347658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/347658.Still_Alive_A_Holocaust_Girlhood_Remembered 3.93 97 Born in Vienna, Kluger somehow survived a girlhood spent in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Gross-Rosen. Some of the lessons she imparts are surprising, as when she argues, against other historians, that the female camp guards were far more humane than their male counterparts, and when she admits that she has difficulty today queuing in line, a constant of camp life, "out of revulsion for the bovine activity of simply standing." Her memories of her youth are punctuated by sharp reflections on the meaning of the Shoah and how it should best be memorialized in a time when ever fewer survivors are left to act as witnesses. Those reflections are often angry--"Absolutely nothing good came out of the concentration camps," she writes, recalling an argument with a naive German graduate student, "and he expects catharsis, purgation, the sort of thing you go to the theatre for?"

But they are constantly provocative, too. Though readers will doubtless take issue with some of her conclusions, Kluger's insistent memoir merits a wide audience. --Gregory McNamee

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